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Re: Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

#41

Would be very useful if the website had even a single screenshot that clearly showed the app experience. Yes I know there’s a video (and a rather crude clip of a screenshot at the very bottom of the page), but nothing that clearly just shows what the app looks like easily. As the author, I’d assume it shouldn’t be too hard to mock it out with dummy data rather than blurring out details. If there’s any motion, a gif w…

Will add, thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

#42

My first thought was "oh, this will contribute to already high anxiety levels", mostly because I remember how I reacted to MRR changes: - MRR went up a bit: "Great, we're on track" - MRR went down a bit: "THE END IS NEAR!!!!" At some point, I understood that it was Loss Aversion Bias [1] at play. Once I reframed MRR movements as something fluctuating and neutral, it lost all anxiety-inducing powers. So this might act…

Exactly! Know your enemy. Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.

Re: Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

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I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I notarise builds on commit as part of CI and it took...all of about five minutes to set up. Three of those minutes were me hunting around my desk for my 2FA phone. The whole thing is _trivial_ to automate, and I normally see notarisation times around 2-3 minutes. Is it more tedious than just flinging something up on the web? Sure. Is it so much of an obstacle that…

Thanks for saying this. I emphatically agree with all points but wanted to add, even if you don’t have a CI/CD pipeline already, doing notorization is trivial locally.

Fixed the notarization, thanks for bringing that up!

Re: Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

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post #44

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Thanks for saying this. I emphatically agree with all points but wanted to add, even if you don’t have a CI/CD pipeline already, doing notorization is trivial locally.

Fixed the notarization, thanks for bringing that up!

Your reply makes me feel a bunch better about your product. Keep up the good work!

Re: Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

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Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I notarise builds on commit as part of CI and it took...all of about five minutes to set up. Three of those minutes were me hunting around my desk for my 2FA phone. The whole thing is _trivial_ to automate, and I normally see notarisation times around 2-3 minutes. Is it more tedious than just flinging something up on the web? Sure. Is it so much of an obstacle that…

Good for you. You always have the Internet on when you do your builds.
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